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Entries from November 20th, 2009

Bad cheesy clip art

November 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Bad design, Bad PowerPoint, Images

I found this in my collection (no, it’s not mine, but it is a colleague’s but he won’t be reading this so I’m safe). He has used a Spongebob figure in a scientific presentation. In my view this fails because (1) the clipart is very low resolution so looks very amateur and (2) because it’s [...]

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Send me your best slides!

November 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Great design, PowerPoint

Loads of people are reading the blog but few comments are coming in, so in order to try to get some interaction going, why not send me a couple of examples of your slides. Send me examples of slides that you think are either really good or particularly bad. If you present regularly, why not [...]

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Using iPhone 3GS as presentation remote

November 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Apple Keynote, iPhone presenter apps

I gave a couple of talks today and decided to try the app Pointer instead of my usual remote. I was using my MacBook Pro with my presentation in Keynote. However this app does not work only with Keynote – it is a great remote for PowerPoint, too.

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Found another great presentation blog

November 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Lee Potts runs a great blog called Breaking Murphy’s Law (whatever can go wrong will go wrong)

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Presentation error:
Don’t use other peoples’ slides!

November 11th, 2009 · No Comments · PowerPoint, Things to avoid, Uncategorized

I took a short cut today and used some data supplied by a colleague.

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What makes a presentation memorable?

November 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

What makes a presentation memorable? (You can choose more than one answer)(survey software)

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Steve Jobs’ presentation secrets

November 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Communication, Steve Jobs

I have just been sent a link to a video discussing Steve Jobs’ presentation style. The Business Week article also includes some general tips for all of us, in terms of how to make our presentations more interesting.

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Color picker for PowerPoint (Windows)

November 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Good PowerPoint design, PowerPoint, PowerPoint add-in

It seems that the Windows version of PowerPoint doesn’t have the eyedropper/color picker thing that the Mac version has.

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Choosing the correct color scheme

November 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Designer worth noting, Garr Reynolds, Good PowerPoint design, Images, PowerPoint

This is something overlooked by presenters – how do you choose complementary colors for your presentations to give them maximum impact? Garr Reynolds has just posted a very useful piece about color schemes.

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